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PAN-OS and EDLs - Everything You Wanted to Know about External Dynamic Lists
Looking to implement external dynamic lists in your Palo Alto NGFW or Prisma Access? This post will answer all your questions about how EDLs work in PAN-OS to dynamically improve your security posture.
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 Lab
The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Introduction to XQL: Writing Your First Query
Learning a new programming or query language can be daunting, but if you've used the boolean options in a web search engine before, you can master XQL queries in no time. Like with web searches, we start with a hypothesis of our search, add filters to limit our results, and then validate the results that are returned against our hypothesis.
Introduction to XQL: Writing Your First Correlation Rule
Correlation Rules in Cortex XDR and XSIAM are how we can use XQL queries to detect patterns, anomalies or sequences of activities that could indicate malicious behavior, even when each individual event might not appear suspicious on its own. Correlation Rules typically leverage data from multiple datasets, but for our example, we'll keep it simple to alert on failed login attempts to a NGFW, and build on the query later.
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Learn the basics about network security and how next-generation firewalls (NGFW) fits in and establish a baseline knowledge to help aid you through the Next-Generation Firewall learning paths. Throughout this learning path you will learn network security, tools and techniques used to help secure your network, and how the NGFW fits into your security requirements. You will have the opportunity to explore these concepts that will help you walk the NGFW learning path with ease and comfort to aid you on your successful journey of learning NGFW! Now let's get started!
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Introduction to XQL: Building Your First Widget
Widgets transform XQL query results into interactive visualizations, aiding SOC analysts in identifying trends and anomalies. This article demonstrates using widgets to graph failed GlobalProtect logins, helping detect brute-force attacks and misconfigurations, and providing proactive assistance to users.
Palo Alto Cortex XDR
Learn about Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Palo Alto's extended detection and response platform that natively integrates network, endpoint, cloud, and third-party data to stop modern attacks. In this Learning Path, you will explore the architecture on which Cortex XDR runs, as well as look into the deployment of Cortex XDR agents and the creation of profiles and policies. You will also learn about the detection and response capabilities that are provided by Cortex XDR.
Introduction to XQL: Custom Datasets for Threat Hunting
Both Cortex XDR and XSIAM let you go well beyond endpoint telemetry from the XDR Agent by ingesting custom datasets through the Broker VM. Forwarding Proxmox syslogs, you can analyze failed logins and suspicious system activity directly in XQL. This unlocks the ability to correlate hypervisor events with endpoint, network, and identity data—all in one platform. Tracking brute-force attempts against pvedaemon, custom datasets give you visibility into layers that traditional EDR misses.
How Palo Alto Networks is Revolutionizing Security Operations with XSIAM
Cortex XSIAM revolutionizes cybersecurity by integrating AI, automation, and comprehensive visibility into a unified platform. Experience an autonomous SOC that empowers teams to focus on strategic threat hunting and proactive protection.
Prisma Access Browser – Secure Browsing for the Modern Enterprise
Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Access Browser revolutionizes cybersecurity for the modern workforce.
From Chaos to Clarity: Effective Attack Surface Management with Cortex Xpanse
Attack Surface Management (ASM) is vital for modern cybersecurity. Cortex Xpanse offers continuous visibility, automated discovery and risk assessment of internet-facing assets. This structured approach, from discovery to advanced automation, helps organizations reduce their attack surface and secure assets effectively.
Delivering Modern ZTNA: How Okta and Palo Alto Networks Work Better Together
Okta and Palo Alto Networks synergize to create a robust Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) architecture. By integrating identity management and network security, they enable dynamic, policy-driven access across users, applications and devices for continuous validation and enforcement. Discover how these technologies connect to secure modern work environments.
Securing the AI Landscape with Palo Alto Networks' AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)
Generative AI is revolutionizing industries but introduces new security challenges. Palo Alto Networks' AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) offers comprehensive protection for visibility, control and governance across AI applications. Secure your AI journey with AI-SPM, preventing data leaks, misconfigurations and compliance violations while fostering innovation.
Contractors and the Prisma Access Browser Solution
How the Prisma Access Browser can safely allow contractors or employees on personal devices access to protected resources
The State of Data Loss Prevention
Data Loss Prevention has regained prominence in recent years due to large scale breaches and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. Vendors with varying tech heritages have been lining up to employ new technologies and techniques against this seemingly never-ending problem.
The Grizzled CyberVet's Tactical Plan: Mapping Palo Alto Networks to MITRE ATT&CK
Next up in the Grizzled CyberVet series: A global enterprise faces a full-scale cyberattack spanning every stage of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Armed with Palo Alto Networks' full security platform, they stop the threat at every turn. Learn how a unified security strategy can outmatch attackers before they succeed. Read on to see it in action!
The Grizzled CyberVet: How Palo Alto Networks Powers End-to-End Cyber Defense
Fragmented security solutions create inefficiencies and vulnerabilities. This article explores how Palo Alto Networks' integrated platform addresses these gaps, breaking the cybersecurity kill chain at every stage. By consolidating security functions, organizations enhance threat prevention, streamline operations and reduce costs. Learn how a unified approach strengthens defenses and why proactive security is essential for business resilience.
Why Should I Use Variables in Panorama?
Panorama allows an admin to configure device-specific options for a firewall from a central source. Templates allow an admin to consolidate the configurations for multiple firewalls
SSE and SASE Market Scan Workshop
This workshop is designed to help organizations with their decision making for their next-generation network and security architecture.
The Grizzled CyberVet: State of Network Security
Network security has evolved rapidly, with the field now embracing zero trust, AI-driven defenses and integrated platforms. The next five years will see AI, SASE and quantum-resistant cryptography reshape the landscape. Enterprises must consolidate tools, adopt AI automation and prioritize identity-first security to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Secure your future now.
Operationalizing Threat Intelligence with Cortex: A Maturity Model for SOCs
Transforming raw data into actionable intelligence is crucial for cybersecurity. This article explores the stages of operationalizing threat intelligence, from basic ingestion to fully automated, proactive security operations, using Cortex TIM. Learn how to enhance your SOC's capabilities, reduce manual effort and shift from reactive to proactive defense.
Palo Alto Cortex XDR Proving Ground Lab
WWT's ATC Palo Alto Cortex XDR Proving Ground Lab provides a consolidated solution built around Cortex XDR, the Palo Alto firewall, Windows endpoints and Windows servers to demonstrate how the Cortex XDR Agent protects against threats. The goal of Cortex XDR is to increase the operational efficiency of the security operations center. Cortex XDR accomplishes this by reducing alerts by combining similar events, stitching together logs from different sources and preventing as many threats as possible early in the attack cycle. Cortex XDR goes beyond the traditional EDR approach of using only endpoint data to identify and respond to threats by applying machine learning across all your enterprise, network, cloud and endpoint data. This approach enables you to quickly find and stop targeted attacks, insider abuse and remediate compromised endpoints. Cortex XDR combines functionality from Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Detection and Response, Network Traffic Analysis and User Behavior Analytics into a single console. This lab consists of servers running common applications that include Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Palo Alto VM-Series firewall, Active Directory, Windows IIS and SQL server, and several Windows 10 workstations. You will access the environment using a Windows-based jump host from which you can browse web consoles and open RDP/SSH sessions.
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Learn the basics about network security and how next-generation firewalls (NGFW) fits in and establish a baseline knowledge to help aid you through the Next-Generation Firewall learning paths. Throughout this learning path you will learn network security, tools and techniques used to help secure your network, and how the NGFW fits into your security requirements. You will have the opportunity to explore these concepts that will help you walk the NGFW learning path with ease and comfort to aid you on your successful journey of learning NGFW! Now let's get started!
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 Lab
The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Palo Alto NGFW Intermediate Version 10 Lab
The Palo Alto NGFW Intermediate Lab is a hand-on virtual environment where you'll be able to complete the exercises you see in the Intermediate learning path as well as several new practicals. The Intermediate lab focuses on tasks like SSL Decryption, URL Filtering, and DNS Tunneling. Just like the Foundations lab, the Intermediate lab is built upon the same infrastructure. While there is a guide that you can follow along with, you can also explore the environment and test any configuration you'd like.